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Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
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I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.
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Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory you won't see it often.
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We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.
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My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
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Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.
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I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.
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She's applying her lipstick I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.
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In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
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The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.
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For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some N.Y.C. - so from one perspective you could say that the place in my work always comes first.
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I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.
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